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The outer rings of the reader: the tradition the texts belong to, the themes they share with others, the places they were written, and the diagrams their authors drew. Each one leads back into the texts.
- The Platonic Current Plato at the root and the tradition branching down through time, from the Neoplatonists and the translators of Baghdad to the Sufis, the Kabbalists and the Florentines, with documented links told apart from faint ones.
- Themes Themes that run across the library, and the places where traditions that never met say something alike, each labelled as a resonance or a contrast, never as influence without grounds.
- Atlas The places and people of Ibn ʿArabī's life: his journeys from Murcia to Damascus, his teachers, and how the Fuṣūṣ travelled after him.
- Diagrams The figures the authors drew, some in Ibn ʿArabī's own hand in the autograph of the Futūḥāt, and the schemes others set out in words so exactly that they can be drawn: every part keeps the author's own sentence.
- Quran verses in the library Every verse quoted across the library, and where.
Every ring here leads back into the texts. What this is and why: About Mashraba. Every page: the site map.